Arboretum

Hort Club donates burr oak to WSU Arboretum

  Photos by Becky Phillips, WSU Today   Horticulture students and other members of the university community welcomed a tall burr oak sapling to the WSU Arboretum near the Lewis Alumni Center Wednesday afternoon under cloudy – but dry – skies.   The tree-planting celebration – sponsored by the Horticulture Club – takes place each spring as […]

Arboretum/Wildlife Research Center planning forum

A visionary design session to develop the WSU Arboretum and Wildlife Research Center master plan will be held the first week of February on the WSU Pullman campus. Designers from The Portico Group and Miller/Hull Partnership will be on campus to hold a three-day planning “charrette” with Arboretum and Wildlife Center committee members. The first […]

Arboretum Committee and Horticulture Club plant tree

The Washington State University Horticulture Club and the WSU Arboretum Committee continued an annual tradition this morning by planting a tree to honor WSU’s 2007 graduating seniors. The tree was planted at the WSU Arboretum east of Hulbert Hall and north of the Lewis Alumni Centre. The tree chosen to honor this year’s graduates was a White Oak (Quercus […]

Walkway a step toward campus arboretum

After 25 years of effort by the WSU Arboretum Committee and supporters, the “backbone” of a WSU Pullman arboretum is being set in place — a serpentine pathway running from the Alumni Center, crossing Wilson Road and meandering up and around the adjacent hillside. Designed by Capital Planning and Development (CPD) and jumpstarted by a […]

Tree added to Arboretum; walkway to be constructed

Washington State University’s annual Presidential Tree Planting ceremony took place May 3 on the southeast side of the WSU arboretum east of Hulbert Hall and north of the Lewis Alumni Centre. (Seen in the photo above are WSU President V. Lane Rawlins, left, and Rhonda Kromm, second vice president of the WSU Alumni Association Board […]